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We’ll be right back

The Ars staff is meeting in Chicago to finalize our plans for world domination.

One of the benefits of working for Ars Technica is that the commute is fantastic—we all work from home. The flip side is that we rarely get to see our coworkers.

Today and tomorrow, we're trading our IRC chatroom for a Condé Nast conference room in Chicago. There, we'll get to spend some quality time with one another as we further our plans for world domination in 2013 and beyond.

But fear not—even though we'll be in meetings all day, we're not turning out the lights and hanging a "Gone Fishin'" sign on the door. Instead, we've got some fantastic content queued up for today and tomorrow. We've got some original reporting from our talented group of writers. We'll also be re-running some of our favorite, but slightly overlooked features. For breaking news, Ars contributor Timothy Lee will be holding vigil over the newsdesk and we'll also run some content from our sister site, Wired.

So even though we'll be sitting around a conference table wearing nice clothes (no, we don't work in our bathrobes), we'll still be bringing you the great content you've enjoyed for the last 1.425 x 10-1 centuries.

Promoted Comments

Any chance the plans for world domination will include a permanent ban on article comments that ignore the topic of the article to focus on:

- how much Ars sucks now- how much the Ars writers suck- how much the Ars editors suck for hiring the Ars writers- how much the Ars editors suck at editing- how much (insert article/author/editor) here proves that- how much better Ars used to be back in the day- how much bias Ars obviously has (for|against) my (most|least) favorite (topic|company|opinion|demographic)

"we've got some fantastic content",yet there may be reprints from Wired... Isn't this a bit,well.. impossible XDAs for the wildly insane theories flying around why they're really gone for a couple of days .. The truth is they're attending a resurrection ceremony for he who will not be named (because Apple's crack team of litigators is on watch) Well,that or they're planning a campaign of terror and/or shoddy journalism against Google and Microsoft as ordered by zeMaster in their holy scriptures

We had two bags of doritos, seventy-five terabytes of storage, five sheets of high-powered solar panels, a saltshaker half-full of SIMs, a whole galaxy of multi-colored ipones, androids, blackberries...

We had two bags of doritos, seventy-five terabytes of storage, five sheets of high-powered solar panels, a saltshaker half-full of SIMs, a whole galaxy of multi-colored ipones, androids, blackberries...

Any chance the plans for world domination will include a permanent ban on article comments that ignore the topic of the article to focus on:

- how much Ars sucks now- how much the Ars writers suck- how much the Ars editors suck for hiring the Ars writers- how much the Ars editors suck at editing- how much (insert article/author/editor) here proves that- how much better Ars used to be back in the day- how much bias Ars obviously has (for|against) my (most|least) favorite (topic|company|opinion|demographic)

will i still be allowed to focus on how jdw sucks? free speech you know

It's fine with me. But just out of fairness to others -- and since your right to free speech doesn't extend to other people's websites -- it might be best to limit the comments about it until there's an article about how I suck (or a series of articles -- there's a lot of ground to cover), otherwise it may still be too far off-topic.

Drink.Visit their shiny new servers.Discover the official name of the "bean".Drink.Visit Sears Tower before someone changes its name again.Learn which are the North side and South side baseball teams.Drink.Hope for one more really warm day along North Ave beach.Write something.Drink.Determine the source of Chicago's wind...